Be Just a Voter or a Proud Citizen, the Choice is Ours!

Dear friends,

The constitution of our country, India, has given us this very important power to elect our representatives and send them to the assemblies or the Parliament. This power is both a right and a duty, in fact its more a duty than just a right. Every duty has its own obligations, and we too have certain obligations towards our country, a country which has seen 6 decades of elections and the politics driven in the name of common public. It's our responsibility to elect the representatives who we believe will put the cause of our country and it's people ahead of anything else.

Do we deserve the leaders we elect?


Friends, I ask you these simple questions. Do we really want the leaders who rule us today? Where are we today? Is our country there where it deserved to be in more 60 years of independence? I am sure you must have asked these questions to yourself some time or the other and must have got some answers too from within. I am also sure that you must have cribbed some time about your leaders not being competent or corrupt. Yes, everyone knows the problem lies in the kind of leaders we elect and give them our fate in their hands.

The Hard Facts


Lets have a look at some very hard and disturbing facts which are jolts to our belief in our very own leaders and their capabilities, and which should be enough to let us awaken to a new movement and an era which sees the Indian dream turning into a reality.

  • If you are told by your leaders that India has developed a lot, would you believe them?
    • Our fellow citizens still die of starving
    • People still die of cold in winters and heat in summers
    • Farmers still end their lives of debt
    • Most of our population still lives without necessary and basic commodities
    • We have not added to the length of our rail roads any significantly to what it was in the British era
    • Slums are still a unavoidable parts of our cities

  • If you are told that India is stronger, would you believe them?
    • We are dependent on other countries for most of our defence supplies
    • We have not even been able to develop a fighter plane of our own which many countries had made before the Second World War
    • We don’t have no artillery guns that we make ourselves
    • We don’t make our own machine guns
    • Our missile program gives us more failures than successes
    • Our pride Arjun tank is not even at par with the tanks that Germany and other World War 2 countries had at that time
    • There are intrusions from all across our borders from neighbouring countries
    • Terrorist strikes by foreign militants have now become routine event

  • If you are told that Indians earn more, would you believe them?
    • A big number of population don’t own their homes in cities
    • Buying an own home seems an impossible task with the sky touching prices and interest rates on loans
    • Even getting a home on rent is getting out of the reach of many people
    • Prices of necessary goods are so high that most people are struggling with their routine budgets


The National Character !

  • Corruption is so deep into our political and government machinery that its is virtually difficult to get any justified thing done without bribing
  • Police, our protectors, are no more trusted
  • Officials, from top to bottom, share the black money they earn through pay offs
  • Recently, the country has discovered that our judiciary is also one of the most corrupt establishments, and we still hope for justice!
  • When we enter most of our cities, we see sewage drains, heaps of garbage and suffocating air before experiencing anything else
  • Regionalism is at its peak and we no more tolerate our own countrymen

The Election Season Once Again!

My fellow citizens,
The election season is round the corner once again, and the drama is about to begin. The perpetrators of our democracy will again come up with false promises, rosy dreams, and stories that never existed or will never exist.

Would you believe any political parties?

  • Parties don’t bother to post good leaders instead they want people who can win the elections by any means; saam, daam, dand, ved!
  • In the current Lok Sabha, 125 + members are having criminal cases on them.
  • According to a minister, Hansraj Bhardwaj, 1300 members of state assemblies and the Parliament have criminal cases of different nature and 65 of them are being investigated by the CBI.
  • In a country where 26 crore of its population don’t have money to feed themselves, 50% of leaders 50% of the wealth.
  • Our most MPs are Crorepatis and many of them are Arabpatis.
  • The Vohra committee, which was set up to change the constitution of India, had suggested that most leaders have nexus with criminals and they run parallel governments in their areas. The committee had suggested that people who have any criminal cases pending on them should not be allowed to run in elections, which was never implemented.
  • Its very difficult to get tickets for good candidates as most political parties give tickets only if you have good connections within the party or you have money.
  • Most of the political parties consider people as mere voters and not even citizens.

What can we do?

Well friend,

Despite what all I have explained so, far there is lot more which you, me and all countrymen know. But this is our country, and we have been given the responsibility to run it. And as we don’t trust the leaders anymore and we believe that they are responsible for the state in which India is today, why we should vote for them?

The right to vote is a huge responsibility, and we can not waste it like this. We want change, and now is the high time for it. If we vote the same people this time again, we only would be accepting our fate as it is.

The Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961 (Statutory Rules and Order) in the article 49-O also gives a provision where people can express their right to not to vote.

49-O. Elector deciding not to vote.—If an elector, after his electoral roll number has been duly entered in the register of voters in Form 17A and has put his signature or thumb impression thereon as required under sub-rule (1) of rule 49L, decided not to record his vote, a remark to this effect shall be made against the said entry in Form 17A by the presiding officer and the signature or thumb impression of the elector shall be obtained against such remark.

Please click here to download the full text of the Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961.

Declare you are not voting?

According to the Election Commission, barely 2 to 3 voters used Rule 49(0) to not vote in favour of any candidate in the Delhi assembly elections. But there can be a hypothesis that someday, if the people who turn out not to vote are more than the number of votes a winning candidate gets, it may embarrass not just the winning candidate but the whole polity itself.

Don’t be just a Voter, be a proud Citizen!

Friends, as awaken and aware citizens of this great country which is not there where it should have been, all because of the political leaders that we elected, we should do our bit for this great cause. We, the youth, the adults, elders and every one of us should stand for electoral and constitutional reforms. We better stand up now, than repenting the whole life and cribbing as we have been doing ever since we grew up to think about our nation. We owe it to our country and we should not shirk it this time. At least we can and we must try it. We need to be the mean to achieve the change we want; come together, join hands, make this effort and have the decisive move.

Yes, be just a voter or a proud citizen, the choice is ours…